The First Ten Days

Did I also forget to comment on the elections? I really don't NEED to chime in with everyone else, but with the power of the Internet I CAN and WILL.

After passively witnessing a watershed moment in U.S. presidential politics from the comfort of my PJs in my own living room, I naively believed that I could coast out the Bush Administration on an ignorant wave of bliss.

'not so' said the 'bigot'.

NPR repeated the words of a certain Italian Prime Minister who described President-elect Obama as, "young, handsome and even suntanned." A member of Germany's extreme-right National Democratic Party, released a statement regarding Obama's election titled "Africa conquers the White House." (Ahhh Germany what would we do without you?) And the comments are coming in close from home. A Mexican professional that I know tried to share a joke email with me that Obama's first major decision as President will be to paint the White House black.

I guess the asian would find that funny if he didn't live through the ignorant remarks made at his expense in the 80s and the dogmatic P.C. movment that re-orientated us to tiptoing around the issue entirely. In fact, race has been with us from pretty much the beginning.

My father used to tell stories about getting into fights with some of the kids in his Brooklyn neighborhood over words like, 'chink' and 'slanty'. He said that all he needed to do was beat the crap of a kid, and that would solve it.

According to Julian Bond, chairman of the NAACP, this is all relatively new to most of the World, and it will have to be brought up speed. I'm not too sure I can handle an other P.C. movement, nor can we attempt an other global ass whooping.